skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is if that billion is already earmarked for normal police activities, and they're already underfunded, they can't be expected to cough up a bunch more money for this investigation.
Got a citation for that claim? Because from what I see it's still enormously higher than it was 4 years ago: https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi (166% annual rate in Nov 2024, compare with 35.8% annual rate in Nov 2020).
That's the biggest issue with LLM searching. I cannot trust the answers. Search engines aren't much better, but at least I can check different sources. And to be fair search engines where never meant to be answer machines.
It can be done with 2 resistors. It's kinda required because of the same port on both ends. If I plug a battery into a phone, should the phone charge the battery or should the battery charge the phone?
Greylisting helps a lot.
Neither c++ nor rust is a clear winner in portability and platform support. C++ is available on more platforms, but in some ways rust makes it easier to support multiple platforms than it is in c++, for example using rustup to install the latest version of the compiler.

What they got from this isn't that they can now support more platforms, but that they now don't have to spend as much effort on supporting dealing with differences between different platforms.
Developers of software want, and feel entitled to, the data on your computer, both about your usage within the app, as well as things you do outside of the app (such as where you go and what you buy).

Software will continue to spy on people so long as it is not technically prohibited or banned.
OP was wrong, but this is even wronger

Locally, a small ML model identifies potential POIs in an image.

Another model turns these regions into a series of numbers (a vector) that represent the image. For instance, one number might correlate with how "skyscraper-like" the image is. (We don't actually know the definition of each dimension of the vector, but we can turn an image that we know is the eiffel tower into a vector, and measure how closely our reference image and our sample image are located)

The thing is, we aren't storing this database with the vectors of all known locations on our phone. We could send the vector we made on device off to Apple's servers. The vector is lossy, after all, so apple wouldn't have the image. If we did this, however, apple would know that we have an image of the eiffel tower.

So, this is the magic part. The device encrypts the vector using a private key known only to it, then sends this unreadable vector off to the server. Somehow, using Homomorphic Encryption and other processes I do not understand, mathematical operations like cosine similarity can be applied to this encrypted vector without reading the actual contents of the vector. Each one of these operations changes the value, which is still encrypted, but we do not know how the value changed.

I don't know if this is exactly what Apple does, I think they have more efficient ways, but theoretically what you could do is apply each row in your database to this encrypted value, in such a way that the encrypted value becomes the name of the POI of the best match, or otherwise junk is appended (completely changing the encrypted value) Again, the server has not read the encrypted value, it does not know which row won out. Only the client will know when it decrypts the new value.
Your photos aren't sent anywhere in this system.
You really need to define what you mean by generally intelligent in that case. Otherwise, if you require free movement for generally intelligent organisms, you may be making interesting claims about bedridden people.
...that the (seemingly) most insane executive we know of is sane enough to not commit murder?
I’ve done so many tiny hobby projects lately that scratch 10+ year itches, where I’ve said so many times “I wish there was an application for this, but I’m too lazy to sit down and learn some Python library and actually do it.” Little utilities that might have taken me a day to bring up a bunch of boilerplate, study a few docs, write the code switching back and forth from the docs, and then debugging. Today that utility takes me 30 minutes tops to write just using Copilot and it’s done.
Sure, I use Ente and have iCloud Photos turned off, but TFA is referring to what happens in the Apple Photos app, which happens even if you have iCloud Photos turned off.
That's got nothing to do with cures. In that world administering a cure would be cheaper than treating a chronic illness, which is the opposite of what's being said.
> I think both of you had it turned on from long past OS installs.

It's a brand new feature of iOS 18 and macOS 15. It did not exist in iOS 17 or macOS 14.

Moreover, my macOS 15 volume was a totally fresh, clean install on a test Mac.
No, we cannot all agree. I think your definition of "portable" is not compatible with most people's. You seem to be conflating portable and removable; those are two different properties that do not have to coexist. If the battery in your iPhone was not portable, you would not be able to move your iPhone.
If Apple can prompt me 4700 times after I’ve said no each time to enable Apple TV and Apple Arcade and Apple Fitness subscriptions, they can prompt users to enable a new feature if they wish.
I guess quantum computing breaking it and them not being fast enough to adapt
Interesting experience, not one I can corroborate myself.

So a few weeks ago I updated to Fedora 41. (Updating from N-2 -> N is supposed to be fully supported)

Correct, and I do believe F39 -> F41 was tested, but every system will be a little bit different.

I wasn't surprised that it broke my nvidia driver's dkms integration - I don't expect any distro to test their integration of the market leader GPU manufacturer.

Fedora actually does test this. What driver installation method are you using? Unless you are using NVIDIA GRID for vGPU or need to use a very specific version of the generic Linux driver, use RPM Fusion's akmod-nvidia package[0]. Normal DKMS via NVIDIA's modularity CUDA repositories or the binary installer can be fraught with issues that users don't deserve. Rather than just installing the kmods directly, an akmod package will build an RPM for the modules and install that. You'll know well in advance if there's a problem before you reboot, nor have to twiddle your thumbs during the upgrade transactions. Just give the system an extra minute after running a kernel update before rebooting (watching "ps aux" for "dnf", "kmod", and "rpm" helps). Several system configurations regarding module parameters and initramfs boot options are included as well.

I finally did this today (I have a GTX 1070), but configuring my kernel parameters[1] to disable NVIDIA's fbdev allows me to once again have alternate console TTYs. Despite being an experimental option, it is enabled by default in newer drivers and it conflicts with another framebuffer. For the past few Fedora releases since it was flipped on I've had to use a second device to SSH to my system after the version upgrade to gracefully reboot once the driver module package rebuilt. The akmod rebuild trigger doesn't stall the offline upgrade reboot, so the driver isn't prepared in time for first boot. My standard practice is configuring my system to the multi-user target before issuing an offline version upgrade, then switching back after.

the system was suspended. When I wake it up, the screen is also locked. That was weird, as I have disabled all power mgment features, and I have also passwordless autologin on this machine. Then looking at some of the logs, it turned out that xdg-desktop-portal segfaulted in the middle of the night, which in turn killed all user sessions and processes and logged me out. And then it ignored my powermgmt settings, and sent the machine to sleep.

That is definitely a new one to me. In addition to your searching, did you happen to follow through with Fedora's problem reporting checklist[3]? It's not a mandatory step, but it can be incredibly helpful having these issues documented and brought to engineering's attention.

[0]: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA (alternatively just enable the NVIDIA driver specific repository pre-provided by Fedora: dnf config-manager --enable rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)

[1]: grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="nvidia-drm.fbdev=0" && dracut -f

[2]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/bugzilla-fil...
is it more expensive than what we're dealing with now? have we even tallied the human talent cost?
Likely best to get old 80s style narrow top key caps and high force switches.

Ibm Model m or a keyboard with mx green switches.
And how does one know how to connect with interviewers when every individual is different, and when there is no feedback from the interviewer’s side?
That's why I don't answer LinkedIn recruiters anymore, unless they can show me a clear opportunity that matches my profile.

Every time I answered their bait and they "just wanted a quick phone call", it was clear that they only were interested in filling their database.

Then I get spammed by them with irrelevant automated offers forever, unless I block them completely.
Regardless of one's opinion of intellectual property laws, nobody is morally entitled to demand that someone else build the exact oroduct they want. In fact it is immoral to demand that of other people — and you certainly wouldn’t like it if other people could demand that of you.

Want a phone that doesn’t spy on you? Make it yourself. If you can’t, find some like-minded people and incentivise them (with money or otherwise) to make it for you. If they can’t (or won’t) perhaps contemplate the possibility that large capitalist enterprises might be the only practical way to develop some products.
Bitcoin correlates a bit too closely to tech for my liking. Take NVDA for example. The movement (albeit different magnitude) has been very similar between the two since 2021. This may imply that a large tech selloff could trigger a similar drop in BTC.
Sir! The willies you just gave me have no compare.

What if said AI gains sentience, but trained on that data?!
Well, maybe it was a non-event because people actually fixed code in time. I helped QA test systems but never saw what changes were made. (investment bank) And the same outside my workplace. I don't know what needed changes were made.

I guess that non-disasters are not documented, nor made into movies :-)
I’ve been very happy with the Tex Shinobi keyboard. https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi

The integrated TrackPoint and retro Thinkpad styling makes typing a breeze without ever having to lift your hand off the keyboard for the mouse.
Complete nonsense. *All networked devices do things behind their users back* at this point, and have for years, and do not ask for consent for most of it. And users would REJECT granular opt-in as a terrible UX.

Let's look at the primary alternative, Android. It generally does not provide you this level of granular control on network access either without rooted hacks. Apps and the phone vendor can do whatever they want with far less user control unless you're a deep Android nerd and know how to install root-level restriction software.
I don't mind the whole use of ML based features even if it requires elaborate schemes to run some computation in the cloud in some privacy preserving manner.

However I do see that Apple marketing campaign tried to fool people into thinking somehow non Apple are not private and only Apple provides privacy.
could you elaborate? what can be done with the "old" ESP8266 that can't be done with ESP32?
For 20 years, I’ve wondered why we don’t have that in cars.
Consumers don't have a choice, though. Up until recently, if you wanted an iPhone, you get Lightning, and that's it. That's great for you, since you believe it's the best cable/connector for you. But if someone wanted something different, they had no choice, unless they wanted a different kind of smartphone. And I don't think someone is going to make an iPhone -> Android switch simply because of the cable. That's a bit absurd.
I tested this back when GPT4 was new. I found ChatGPT could quote the verses well. If I asked it to summarize something, it would sometimes hallucinate stuff that had nothing to do with what was in the text. If I prompted it carefully, it could do a proper exegesis of many passages using the historical-grammatical method.

I believe this happens because the verses and verse-specific commentary are abundant in the pre-training sources they used. Whereas, if one asks a highly-interpretive question, then it starts re-hashing other patterns in its training data which are un-Biblical. Asking about intelligent design, it got super hostile trying to beat me into submission to its materialistic worldview every paragraph.

So, they have their uses. I’ve often pushed for a large model trained on Project Gutenberg to have a 100% legal model for research and personal use. A side benefit of such a scheme would be that Gutenberg has both Bibles and good commentaries which trainers could repeat for memorization. One could add licensed, Christian works on a variety of topics to a derived model to make a Christian assistant AI.
IIUC you have these options:

* couchette (6 couchettes per cabin, less comfort)

* 2nd class bed (3 beds per cabin)

* 1st class bed (same as 2nd class, but 2 beds per cabin)

* 1st class private bed (same as above, but without roommate)
Isn’t this 95% the same as Apple’s CSAM scanning paper?
I'm implying that is something that needs to be investigated. The motive is there: hundreds of billions of dollars. And people do not become billionaires by being nice and playing nice. Many of them have clinical psychopathy (ASPD).

Do you think the Boeing whistle blowers just keep running into bad luck?
It's good, worth the read.
> To start with, this program is MASSIVELY popular with employers. The program has a statutory limit of 85,000 visas per year, but employers routinely receive approval for more than 800k applications per year (868k, or 10x the limit, in 2024).

The entire thread is deliberately misleading. 868k applications were "approved" to enter the lottery. Because of how the lottery works employers are incentivized to file as many applications as possible. So doing any kind of analysis on pre-lottery data is pointless. Why not show the same charts for actual visas that were stamped? I guess because cutting all the numbers by >90% doesn't push your narrative as much?
Ignoring e-mail content and throwing Naive-Bayes on the header alone is pretty much hove we got amazing spam filters about 15 years ago. All of course using a millionth or less of the resources a large language model would use.
Superbacked (secrets management) is now free
I always describe this as “fluxbox window management”, but u guess it made its way into KDE eventually! I don’t remember it in the KDE2 days at least.

Anyone have a good app that does this for macOS? I use this one which works great but it’s unmaintained so I worry one day it stops working

https://github.com/jmgao/metamove
I think GP means they stop at this point to ensure that they are giving all of the resumes a pretty fair shake by being fresh.

Afaik, any kind of slush-pile reading (including grading, which is probably the best researched) tends to get less fair as the process wears on the reader.

GP isn't optimizing for finishing the pile, but for making the most of what's in it.
AI Tool Testing

The market is currently flooded with AI tools so you could use all $250 on one month of various AI tools and try them out for next month. Then cancel whatever you don’t like and keep what you do; using the new years L&D budget on it each month.

Self Hosting (Hobby)

You could buy a Raspberry Pi and try self hosting some services.

Conferences

Find conferences next year that have tickets on sale now and buy in advance. For example my city has a monthly one for which you can by an annual subscription via one time payment
Well ok, I guess I'll plug my employer's site for setting up:

https://cloud.vast.ai/host/setup

There's a lot of competition in the "airbnb gpu" so if you don't like us, the number is around 12 or so globally. We're probably either #2 or #3. Companies don't really disclose these things so it's hard to know.

Some people probably list on more than one platform. There may be some host management software somewhere that helps with that. I haven't actually checked.

I'd be happy to talk more about these privately. Some are better than others and I've got no interest posting less than charitable things about our competitors publicly, regardless of how accurate I think it is. My email is in my profile.
Epic Construction Site in the Saudi Desert Is a Hazard for Workers
I imagine that when you get really deep into model training, it can seem like there are a billion hyperparameters you have to worry about.
Yup, this is their way of injecting the "phone home" element via an innocuous rationale, "location matching". The global index will of course also match against other markers they deem worthy of matching, even if they don't return that to the user.
Author here, I will try to implement your suggestions. I made the benchmarks out of curiosity and excitement for ghostty release and never intended to pick on any specific terminal. Considering it's first initial release (1.0) ghostty performance is very good and I'm sure it will improve even more given a few months. I know ghostty doesn't just focus on performance, it excels in other area like utilizing native components and having a growing community that is very supportive.
More engineering time resulted in a more efficient solution.
What claim are skeptical of? Quote one and I can explain more
So I don’t lose the habit when talking/writing to people
True, but I don't see how that relates to anything? You asked for a hypothetical set of people who'd have iCloud Photos disabled but would accept metadata being sent to Apple for better search. I can't help you if you want to move the goalposts after I give you that.
It’s amazing how hostile Silicon Valley (and HN commenters) are to the basic idea of consent. It’s as if simply asking the user for permission is a grave insult to these technologists. “I shouldn’t have to ask permission! It implies I’m doing something bad!” they might be thinking.

If the world was a nightclub, “Silicon Valley” would be a creepy guy who walks up to every woman and says “You’re now dating me. To stop, you need to opt out using a form that I will do my best to make sure you can’t read.”
If the wages are rising that means demand is greater than supply. Tech companies are telling the truth when they say there is a shortage of workers.
Are there any other tools similar to pieces.app that are useful and preferably open-source, which can be integrated into the developer workflow? I’ve used Heynote, which helps to some extent, but it’s not a direct fit and isn’t a complete AI developer workflow companion.
A lot of companies are reevaluating the technical interviews because they're too easy to cheat at now unless they're on site on your hardware (or on a physical whiteboard).
Thanks for clarifying! In that case, he and I have the same "problem" although at very different levels. I've written in other posts about Forth and Lisp that I would very much like to get over the hump of changing how I think about problems. Unfortunately, I have never been able to do it.

There are times where I see how Moore and McCarthy are using a language to define itself. I can sort-of understand how Moore creates a custom language in Forth to tackle something. But, damned if I can explain it or apply that to even a toy problem. I am thankful that there are people out there who can think differently.
This isn’t a normal useful orbit in terms of supporting astronauts on the moon or being available for recovery etc. and was definitely not used to support earlier moon landings. I think it only has a lunar revisit once every 7 days. Imagine your abort / recovery to orbit option is only available for this one tiny window.

SLS probably can’t get Orion to Lunar orbit unfortunately so they have created this insanely costly / complex / lower utility approach.
I had the first gen white MacBook with the magnetic closure that resulted in chipped, discoloured topcases. I had it replaced for free like three or four times over the lifespan of that computer, including past the three year AppleCare expiry.

I really respected Apple’s commitment to standing behind their product in that way.
> The author of the article goes on to show his bias against Apple

My bias against Apple, as someone who exclusively uses and develops software for Apple products? I've been a loyal Mac user for over 20 years.

It's so ridiculous when people make an accusation like this. For better or worse, I'm married to Apple platforms.
And remove the need for cookie warnings on official government websites. Like, why are you using tracking so invasive that it needs the warning, on a government site.
Why does everyone assume young people's parents have healthcare coverage?
This obviously requires location services to be enabled. Why does this need ML? Hit a GIS lookup API with the lat/long of the photo.
> incongruity

Or signal of non-named stakeholders.
I think that oilshell is aimed at people like you. I’ve never used it, but their website does make some interesting points about how a shell ought to work and how this could be compatible with bash.
And yet they were found. How many such exploits lurk unexamined in proprietary codebases?
Emojicode – open-source, full-blown programming language consisting of emojis
Way too wordy, overly formal, and generic
This obviously isn't their goal anymore than the Russians are running out of missiles, the ruble is rubble, this 'game-changer' will imminently end the war (instead of obv just escalating it), and so on endlessly. Russia started negotiations to end the war 4 days (!!!) after the war began when, at that point, it wasn't even a war, but little more than some performative demonstrations!

And the main thing they wanted is what they've said all along - Ukraine agreeing not to join NATO or host foreign military bases. Everything else was negotiable - they were even willing to compromise on the exact status of Crimea! Then we got good ole Boris Johnson telling Zelensky to 'just fight'. One brilliant leader offering wisdom to another, with the outcome anybody could expect when such minds come together.

Notably Putin has also somewhat uncharacteristically shared the details of conversations he was having with Biden shortly prior to the war. And it was again all about Ukraine's NATO status. Biden refused to budge beyond agreeing to delay Ukraine's entry by 10-15 years (which was probably a defacto sort of 'we'll wait until you die' offer). Russian began amassing forces relatively shortly after that conversation.
Part of plane catches fire at Halifax airport
Is flying getting less safe, or are incidents just getting more attention?
Trump lies all the time. So what he says and what he campaigns on are different things. He says he is pro-women (but acts the opposite) pro-US (but sources all his grift from China), says he wants to bring down prices (but plans on tarifs to raise them).

He claims no affiliation to Project 25 (but then hires all those planners into key positions), claims to be pro-worker, but eliminates labor protections and gives tax cuts only to rich people.

The American public are smart. They are not easily duped. They understand that when he says Social Security and Medicare are bring left alone, he intends to cut them.

They understand that campaigning on fiscal responsibility means widening the deficit. They understand that improving health care means taking it away and giving health care companies more profit.

This is the future he campaigned on - this is the future they voted for. This is no a politician changing between campaign and office. His intentions, interests, and affiliations - his transactional nature - are front and center and have been all along.

This is the man the people have decided will best lead them. This is democracy in action.